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Dropping Our Awareness Into the Heart
There's an old story from way back in the mindfulness tradition. A man was carrying water back from a well, using one of those long poles on his back with a large wooden bucket at each end. He saw a wise man on the road and said hi, paying his respect and asking for some guidance in his life. Drop it, said the wise man, pointing to one of the buckets, and he dropped it to the ground. The wise man then pointed to the other bucket and said drop it, and the man carrying water then dropped that one to the ground too,. Then the wise man pointed to the man himself and saiddrop it, and it all fell away and he was finally